InsideEVs' Brussels FSD ride: clean on a tricky left turn, missed the airport lane
InsideEVs took FSD through central Brussels to Charleroi Airport, tram tracks and all: it handled a risky unprotected left turn across fast-moving traffic cleanly, but missed the lane for the airport drop-off and needed a driver takeover — three months after Belgium's approval, a reminder Europe's tight streets aren't fully solved yet.
Belgium became the EU's fifth country to approve Tesla's FSD (Supervised), following the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia and Denmark — the green light came last June, after Tesla completed the required 5,000 km of public-road testing in Flanders.
InsideEVs published a 17-minute edit of a roughly two-hour drive through central Brussels to Charleroi Airport. On narrow streets lined with tram tracks and at an intersection where even the occupants weren't sure who had the right of way, FSD handled an unprotected left turn across fast-moving oncoming traffic without issue.
But things went wrong near the airport: the car missed the lane needed to reach the drop-off area and nearly entered a staff-only zone, forcing the driver to take over and finish the trip manually. Ukrainian outlet UA.News, citing the same footage, reported that FSD "chose the wrong lane" at the intersection.
The drive is a useful snapshot of both how far FSD has come in Europe and how far it still has to go. The version now live in five countries is restricted to Hardware 4 (AI4) vehicles and runs a Europe-specific branch of the v14 software tailored to local roads and rules — a bloc-wide vote to legalize FSD across all 27 EU states hasn't happened yet, and some trackers now expect it to slip into 2027, which helps explain why countries like France are still moving cautiously.
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